re: What is the argument for the electoral college instead of a popular vote?

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Today there really isn't one. More tradition than anything at this point.

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You can be against it fundamentally, but you can't say there isn't a reason. You can't say that suddenly in this time, it's not relevant. Like everyone has stated, we are such a vast and different country compared to the majority of the world. The culture in California is so different than NYC, which is so different from Idaho, which is so different from Louisiana.....so on and so on. Do we really want NYC making all the decisions for Idaho? I mean they have more population, so it makes sense they should have more say, but we have to balance that. Same reason we have a congress and senate. Congress represents your state based on population, but senate helps the smaller population states to have an equal voice.

Who knows, in 100 years, Florida may have 75% of the population. You really want to give them more power than necessary?